#v

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. ↗

— James Buchan

#individualism #islam #liberty #likewise #muslim

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#bad #conflict #feared #i #like

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. ↗

— James Buchan

#awash #been #british #consequences #consular

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#better #etc #good #good people #hire

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#friend #gifts #god #good #good friend

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always? ↗

— Frances Farmer

#always #began #bother #children #did

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. ↗

— James Buchan

#business #commercial #display #government #helplessness

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#forget #god #heaven #i #just

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#change #day #diapers #each #had